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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by snowpid on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @07:14AM (#40925687)
The only opportunity would be for individual countries (like Germany) to fund such rockets alone, but that seems unlikely due to cost (and the fact that they already pay for ESA).

Germany does it in its national program. https://www.dlr.de/de/ar/themen-missionen/raumfahrttechnolog...

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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by cubefox on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @07:48AM (#40925855)
That's just for small launchers and the funding is only 25 million in total (to be divided by several companies) which is orders of magnitude lower than would be required for a partly reusable Ariane 6 replacement.
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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by snowpid on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @08:52AM (#40926342)
start small and start a competition. Then afterwards you get more and more competent companies.
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